Hand-brake mechanism.



G. H. ANDERSON.

HAND BRAKE MEGHANISM.

- APPLIOATIOiI nun APR. 16, 1910.

973,097, Patented Oct. '18, 1910.

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' HAND BRAKE MECHANISM. KPPLIOATIOH FILED APR.16,'1910."

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CZarZJEMerJa'n CHARLES H. ANDERSON, 0F SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

HAND-BRAKE MECHANISM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

Application filed April 16, 1910. Serial No. 555,797.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. ANDER- soN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Vvashington, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Hand-Brake Mechanism, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvement in the construction of hand-brake mechanism for passenger cars, more particularly of the general type whereon the doors for entrance and exit of passengers are in the middle of the car-body at one side. A'car of this type is illustrated and described in Letters Patent No. 943,213, granted to me December 14, 1909, being especially designed for use upon electric interurban railways. Such cars are generally equipped with pneumatic or electric brakes under the control of the motorman, but it is desired in practice that means be also provided for applying and releasing the brakes by hand and that such means shall be adjacent to said doors within convenient reach of the conductor.

My object is to equip the brake mechanism of a car of the said general type with a hand-lever located adjacent to or between the door openings midway of the ends, and between the forward and rear trucks, 0f the car, the construction being such that the hand-lever is positioned normally out of the way so as to not interfere with the movements of passengers entering or leaving the car. It is to be understood that the rules governing the operation of such cars require that the conductor shall remain upon the conductors platform, which is a location at the center of the car, to superintend the opening and closing of doors and to collect fares as passengers enter. Thus, by locating the brake hand-lever in the position stated, it is placed withln ready reach of the conductor for operation by him when necessa I t eferring to the accompanying drawingsFigure 1 is a broken side elevation of a car of the type for which my invention s especially adapted; Fig. 2, a diagrammatlc illustration of part of the brake mechanism of the car, showing the handbrake connection; Fig. 3, a broken and enlarged plan section taken at the door openings on line 3, in Figs. 1 and 4; Fig. 4, a section on line 4, in Fig. 3, corresponding with line 4, in Fig. 1; and Fig. 5, a broken perspective view "or parallel passages 10 lead to the conductors platform-portion ll of the car-floor. Extending inwardly from the upright 9 is a plate 12 provided at its end with a vertical bearing-opening 13. The plate 12 extends along the top of a partition 14 rising from the steps and separating the passages. Secured upon the upper side of the plate 12 is a fitting 15 for the ends of handrails 16 at opposite sides of the partition. 17 is a vertical brake-operating shaft journaled toward its upper end in the bearing 13 and passing through an opening in the floor to a bracket 18, beneath the floor, in which it is journaled at its lower end. On the shaft 17 is a ratchet-wheel 19 to be engaged and released by the foot-operated pawl 20, and on the lower end-portion of the shaft is a drum 21 to which is secured a chain 22 forming the connection between the shaft 17 and lever 23 of the brakemechanism illustrated in Fig. 2. Fitting the upper end of the shaft 17 is a handle 24. Mounted upon the plate 12 in the position shown is a block or standard 25 on which is pivoted a suitable swinging catch 26 adapted to engage and hold the handle 24 when it is turned into register therewith.

Normally, the handle 24 is engaged by the catch 26 and held to extend longitudinally over the plate 12 out of the way of passengers entering or leaving the car. When it is necessary to apply the brakes by hand the conductor can quickly swing the catch 26 on its pivot 27 to release the handle 24 and turn the latter.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a railway passengencar, the combination of a car-body having its entrance for passengers in one side between the forward and rear trucks of the car, a conductors platform in the car-body adjacent to said entrance, a vertical brake-operating shaft extending through said platform and an operating handle on said shaft.

2. In a railway passengencar, the combination of a car-body having a pair of separate closely adjacent door-openings, for entrance and exit of passengers, in one side between the forward and rear trucks of the car, a shaft, and means for holding the handle conductors platform, parallel, separate pasnormally in a position to. extend parallel sages extending from said openings, re- With said passages, for the purpose set forth. spectively, to said platform, avertical brake- CHARLES H. ANDERSON. operating shaft extending through said plat- In presence of form in a plane between said passages, a M. B. SACHS,

laterally projecting operating handle on the R. E. BANKS. 

